I spent the day on Thursday at Eduserv’s Symposium, this year focusing on the question: “Virtual worlds, real learning?”. It was superbly organised (“blended“, apparently!) and a very interesting day all round. The focus, as you would expect was mostly on Second Life but several of the speakers at least gave lip service to the … Read more
My god you can make a blog post look good if you just bung in some random words into the title… I just stumbled across a great interview between Cory Doctorow of boingboing fame and David Weinberger whose book “Everything is Miscellaneous” is due out in May. Cory says some fascinating things – as usual … Read more
Strange that the latest post on Techcrunch doesn’t seem to mention the obvious connection between the Powerset graph for predicting growth for new startups and the Gartner Hype Curve which I’ve talked about a few times, and used in our Museums and the Web presentation It’s an obvious and well established model. A first boom … Read more
Juha just commented on my Digg post and asked about what I thought the whole thing means for museums. I started replying and then thought I might do a post instead. I think the most obvious thing is that the Digg scenario adds weight to many of the arguments we’ve had already. Most obviously, community … Read more
I couldn’t let this one pass. The utterly geeky xkcd has a fabulous Map Of Online Communities with some very amusing stuff on it. I particularly like the compass rose in the middle (“intellectuals”, “practicals”, “focus on real life”, “focus on web”) and the footnote “Do not use for navigation”…
Sorry about that title. Couldn’t resist it. And yes, I sat here for a while trying hard to think of some more words but failed. Anyway. Fascinating things going on over at Digg – probably more than fascinating; I’d guess we’ll look back and say groundbreaking, however it turns out. Basically, someone on the Digg … Read more
I almost forgot: I slipped a couple of things onto the new Science Museum website which people might be interested in – links to the Science Museum Flickr Pool – some *fabulous* images taken by the public on here. Also, we went live with a couple more RSS feeds which you can read about on … Read more
There’s a great post on innovation which I just found on my latest favourite museum blog, Museum 2.0. Seb Chan joins in the debate in the comments – essentially the same stuff which I started to touch on on my earlier post, only this time the question is about the dislocation between a (conservative) institution … Read more
Just spotted collectionX – a kind of collaborative, “upload some media, create an exhibition” type virtual space. Interesting, especially considering an idea that DanZ and I are working on… Keep watching…
Nat Torkington (!) removes some of the romance around free API’s over on O’Reilly Radar, and he’s got a point. I guess this is particularly – mostly – pertinent for businesses whose core offering is based on decentralised content, rather than for those (such as museums) who might want to share data as part of … Read more